>Now, the sysprog is out of the loop ... That is the problem! NOT, that IBM broke the rules! Rather, why is the SYSPROG out of the loop?
I have never worked that way (or, at least, for long). The Capacity Analyst, Performance Analyst, DBA, SYSPROG, & (gasp) the Application Programmer should all be in the loop. Anything else is a process problem! NOT, a vendor problem. When I worked at the Ontario (Canada) government, I had a poster in my cubicle that said: “I don't know what communication is, and nobody will tell me!” -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! -- W. Edwards Deming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

